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4 p • * , . r - Ifi l'' -;:f -1, ",.- p . 1.:t; , * , 1,4 . 4, 0 ~ ." ..., .% • " h" ‘ l . .4 . - '''' • A ' • ' '' ‘ ' l ... I . 1 1)• , . . I ... . - -t 4 l`b•i' , ... .1.'°14-,.-r -iDi W( 4 ;11 4 ' 1: 1 - 0 -4 4 t. 4 4:-. 0 5 ' 4 ' --r, 4 , 00.. , 1.; * 'T -4; - A•?---4 ~• , .. ..._ , . 4,. .... ... 0 11.41 i 4,, A 7 1 gil l V V." .~'^ . ~., e% eg NUAIBER 5128.] SATU DA Y, FEBRUARY 18, 18cw. , t • LIT.teE SIXEZ,Ni-11Z IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THEATRE ROYAL, bRURY-LANE. THIS PRESENT EVENING, Feb. la, 1800, will be perfoiniect MAN AND WIFE ; Or, MORE SECRETS THAN ONE. ... , . hii opinion, deMonStrated any itriPOlicy ar irripro" prittv in the Orders of Council. Lord Sinmouta opposed the Orders in Cacncii, because they seemed to hiM a dereliction of our rights, a 'comprornise, where it ought to be an r;Net tion of lawful power. It was his opinio n that the security of this Country depended on a strut obier ranee of . maritime laws. Lord Ifolland had de clared, in a .letter to the Atnerican Governinent; that " Should the enemy carry his threats into eitecntion, and neutrals acquiesce in hii illegal proceedings, hi& Majesty would find himself compelled to take severe measures against then. " But ArtieriCa bad never. acquiesced in tile usurpatintis of the foe; and eight not therefixe to have been injured in her trade by our regulations. The intention of these regulations had been to starve the Continent into peace, they had 'now been tried, 'and had they been fotind cient? WITH THE UNCONSCIOUS COUNTERFEIT. On Monday, The Country Girl; with Blue Beard; Fedtale Curiosity. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. N MONDAY NEXT, Feb. 20, 1809, will V be pertonnecl KING LEAR. WfTli DE LA PEROUSE ; Or, THE DESOLA l'E ISLAND. On Tuesday, the Tragedy of The Gamester ; with the new Farce, called Is He a Prince ? P ill/IL L. ING. OFE Feb. 9, tB< 9. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING HA . 1 1,1yESTM NiIPY do hereby give Notiee,Tbal Tuesday, the zut iastant, thry, will be ready to recoive Tenders in nuriting(seale i up), and treat /or Three Hundred Thousand Irjallons of WhST INDIA KUM, to be delivered Door file, from Warehouse s In nahieb the same ..ball hate Mnha bonded, int. 'Ws Majesty f l r4iu tlli ,rg Stores at Piymourb and Portsmouth, in She proporticon under menrioned ; one bdu thereof in a month, ayta' iber'entainder in a month afierwards, • Gallons. Plymouth . ZoP,o** Portsmouth " jothooes 14 Paid for aim., mystik, with i n terest, nide, day: after date. The Condition: of the Comma :my ho seen 41 the Seep esas.'Y' Office. No regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price shall not be inserted in wordy t liNgth, or th at shall not h e d e li verre l to Me B oar d b efore One s'Cloik ox the said Twidfy, the 2 :st irritant, nor unless the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on bi z 404, attend:, to answer, when called 'or. VOUND, the 12th of December last, in Dean street, Soho, a SMALL PAPER PARCEL, contain.. ing VO UR VEILS : Whoever has lost the same, and can ribe them, may receive them at No. 6, Stoney-lane, •.ruoley-street. SALE, &c. TO RE SOLD BY AUCTION, . By LEIGH and SOTHEBY, Booksellers, At their House, 1 4S, Strand, opposite Catherine street, on . Monday next, Feb. to, and Nine following Days (Sunday je*c_epted), r HE Entire and Valuable LIBR4RY of. JAMES SIMS, M.D. LL.D. F. K.S. brought from his House in Finsbury -square; containing a vary good Col ledion of Books in Medicine, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mineralo b and Natural History, Arts and Sciences, Astronomy and. ratutal Philosophy, Mathematics, Chess, and other Games, DRomances, &c. Translations, Grammars, a n d Ditiionaries, inity, English Poetry and Pl a y s , Music, &c. Voyages Travels; Geography, Hist o ry, Lives, Memoirs, and tr°llolo 4Y. and VAtit,Us Manuscripts. o, ma ,44. WNW tO Oak i tut ut :;alc, and C a t a l o gue s t o b e b a d Int place of Sale, price 6d. SECOND STATE LOTTERY tOr Consisting Of only aopooe Tickets, begins Drawing the tzth ot A PRI I 1.49. IC KETS and SHARES 2 are. selling by HA ,JI.• ZARD, BURNE, and -Co. Stock-brokers, at their btate Lottery-Office No. 0, under the -Royal Exchange, and no where else in ' London on their.account. The Scheme contains Four Prizes of to,oool. each,. with the usual numb er o f other Capitals, &c, in addition to which 4he First - dr awn P r i ze above 151. on the First Day, will be entitled to ONE THOUSAND WHOLE TICKETS; 'And the First-drawn Prize above tit. on the Seiond Pay, will be entitled to FIVE HUNDRED WHOLE,TICKETS. Shares in propo rt i on , • These Tickets will be deposited at the Bank previous to' the Drawing, and delivered to the fortunate Proprietors at the Close thereOl. Letters (post. paid) duly answered, and Schemes gratis. India,' and South-Sea Sto cks; with their several An nuities, India Bonds, Exchequer Bills s and all kinds of Government Securities, bought and sold by. Commission. i• GRAIID LOTTERY. • F R EE GIFT of ONE THOUSA'gD WHOLE • „TICKETS the First Day, Numbers as follow: 3,00 t .. to . 3,100 4,502 . to . 4,600 5,901 . to . s i te* b,soi - to . 6,600 • 7001 - to . tee Il,p. r to . S,6ma g,oet - to . 9, oo 10,501 to • ,t0,630 11,001 - to 11,000 12,501 . FI VE . ta,600 Also a FREE GIFT of HUNURED.WIIOLE TICKETS to the First-drawn above isl. the Second Day, Numbers; as follow : 111001 . to . 33000 1 4.5 0 1 • to , 14,6u0 :soot - to . *taco 16,50 t to . 16,600 17,0 0 1 . to 17,200 the abase Tickets may gain the whole of the following CAPITAL PRIZES: 4 of . 420,000 2 . . • . 10,Goo 2 • 5,c00 6 . • 1,004 &c. &c. Tci - r Begins APRIL 12th, 1809. t..— - ..91.1ence of the above Gifts of 1,540 Tickets, there are only ili,soo for Sale. T i c-ets and Shares arc selling at all the Licenced Offices. TH4,,DELLES - I:ETTRES. In Two ele This Day were published, • gant Volumes, duodecimo, puce 13s. in boards, or 14s. bound , - L ETTERS on LITERAT and UAE lettered and COMPOSI. , TION, addressed to his Son, By GEORGE GREGORY, D.D. Late Vicar ot West-Ham, Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop • of Llatalatr, tee. This interesting Work had been sent to press. befor e t h e lamented death of the Author, and the Manuscript had been co mpletely finished in the we ek previously to the sudden ill. ness which terminated Ins valuable life. lit a Letter addressed tO his. l'utdisher on its completion, lie remarked, " that this Work contained the result of the observations of his whole Life, On every subjet.i. of taste and literature, and that what. ever Might be the ultimate. opinion of its merits, his reputa tion its the Republic of Letters, wculd in a great degree de pend on it." Printed fist Richard Philtips, 140. 6, Bridge-street, Blatt frius, and to ballad of all Booksellers. _ . 0 1 whom may Ile had, by the &MC Author, t Qautes on Experimental hilosophy and 4hernistty, In 2 Vols. price t 35. boards, ikud £45. bound. A New eyclopoldia, i twir volumes 'patio, price Six Cutricas in boards. HOUSE OF PEERS, . fiRIDAYi FEB. 17. The different Bills before the House were for warded in their respetlive stages. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Lord GrtliN;VlLl l li_i-oSe to make his promised nio tioti. It would, be said, be in their Lordships re colleaion, that in consequence of the sentiments felt and expressed by every class of Merchants and Ma nufaaurers in this kingdom, lie had ou a former oc casion, distinCtly and fully stated his opinions and his arguments upon the question, which this night his duty called upon him again to bring before their Lordships ' a question involving not merely the commercial and financial interests; but the political and moral justice, nay, in its 411timete etfeets, the safety, perhaps the exigrettetv of the Empire. It would likewise, he said, be in the recollection. of their' Lordships, that when upon a farmer occasion he addressed them on this sub je&, he was induced by a motive of fairness and candour towards his Majesty's Ministers, and for the sake of obtaining more correct information on some essential points 'than at that time appeared before the House, he meant the propositions made by the American Government to the King's Ministry re speaing the Orders in Council and the Embargo; and here his Lordship said, lie felt it incumbent on him to make atonement for some expressions which on that occasion had fallen from him in consequence of a misrepresentation which had.been made whim Of the Speech delivered by the Presideut to the Ante rican Congress. The Noble Lords on the opposite side would do him the justice to remember, that, under the impression of the statement made. by the Noble Secretary of State, of the drift and sub stance of that speech, his Lordship had frankly and implicitly acquiesced 'in the unfairness then ascribed to Mn. Jefferson, and in his partiality to France.. His Lordship had since been able to ascertain, with more correctness, the truth of those expressionsut tered by the President, by which not only himself, but in.my other Noble Lords, had. been. misled. From the .authentic and printed documents upon their Lordships' table, to which lie should pre- sently resort, he would make it manifest to every Noble Lord who heard him,- that, solar from un fairness, or partiality exhibited on . the part atkioe. rica against this Country, and in favour of France, nothing could possibly be more fair or impartial, except, indeed, what his Lordship maintained was truly the case, a partiality,. and. a very important one, in favour of this Country. The propositions sent by the American Government to that of this Country were said to be so framed as to threaten hos. tility and a junction with France, in case of our refu sal to meet their offered suspension of Embargo, by cancelling the Orders in Council, while their proposal to France required no other equivalent than the with drawing of their commercial restrictions. Now the Papers before their Lordships will show, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that the t9rmi advanced by America to France, and this Gofernment, were not only in their see's° and spirit, but .in their very terms of expression precisely and literally the same. Here his Lordship read the instructions sent by the American Government to .Mr. Armstrong in Paris, and to Mr. Pinckney in London, where "by it appeared that the proposal to this Government, • was that; on the part of America, the Embargo should be superseded, provided we would rescind the Orders in Council ; and this being agreed upon, it was added, that should France refuse to cancel her Decrees, she must necessarily draw upon herself the hostility of America. .The same proposition, and in She saute terms, was wade to the Government of France so that here was a fair opportunity of not only conciliating the American States, bud restoring the good understanding, . and the solid advantages resulting to both Countries from it, but a strong probability was afforded of a cor dial and itaiVe co-operation, by a powerful Ally, in prosecuting, war against the common enemy.— , His Lordship reprobated, in very strong terms, tlo cendna of Alinisters, which appeared to have been suggested by no motive of wisdom, justice, or policy, but to grow out of a principle of petty and despicable .pride. Buonaparte 'had boasted, or threatened, that he would leave us without a sin gle Ally, and Alinitters appeared desirous, by the. display of a silly, romantic, and ruinous spirit, to meet him on the ground be had chosen. They re minded him of tt certain person, of whom be had somewhere read, that, having received a severe wound, was, by the orders of his friends, prevented from receiving any kind of medical or surgical aid, until it ihould he fairly tried whether the wound of itself was really mortal or not. From the Papers -,oh the table, he ded u ced a d e pl ora bl e f a lling-Off in the amount of Imports and Exports from and to•the American States last year. •His %Lordship next ad verted to the deplorable condition in which multi tudes of industrious maitufaaurers, with their fami lies, were placed by the pernicious operation of these Orders. In rvianchesttr alone forty thous'and were now unemployed. In Birmingham, Sheffield, and other great towns of metinfaaure, the propor tions of distress were correspondent, The !Mlle was the case in almost every other part of the empire. In Ireland especially; in - that country, towards Which a system of condua, calculated it would seem for the sole purpose of producing discontent and irritation, had for a long time been most unwi s rly and mate conntably adopted 3—the whole of the northern dis tri&, that part of the kingdom the.roest industrious, populous, and prosperous, was reduced to a condi tion of unexampled distress. rs bad been customary for the soil of that part of Ireland to proe.uce antivally fortystive thousand hogsheads of MAX seed, of which thirty-fivethousand were constatitly sent to America. With respea to that most important article core, 'it was well known to their Lordships and to the world, that this Country Aid not produce a qitantity of it at all adequate to its own consumption; and now that we were deprived of all our former sources of supply from the northern ports of Europe, it be came peculiarly necessary to obtain It through Arne ries. But if Ministers, as teemed to be their ot.r= jest, were determined to fcii•cOhat country into war with us, what might be the consequence, in this . point of view, it would well become their ,Lordships seriously to consider. He concluded by moving an address to his Majesty, stating, " That in cons 6. quence of certain Decrees issued by the French Government, operating upon general 'commerce, and of an Embargo imposed by the Government of America, his Majesty had been advised to. issue cer4 tain Orders of Council, which had since! by expo- , rienee, been found highly injurious to the commer cial interests of these kingdoms ; this House there fore entreated his Majesty to revoke those Orders, and ro take such measures as might best fend to the renewal of that harmony and good will which it was the interest of countries to preserve, and to assure his Majesty that no endeavour sbould be wanting, on our part, to support him in asserting and ma'pl taining to the fullest extent, the ancient, just, and acknowledged maritime rights of this nation." Lord Ihanuast began by remarking, that the whole speech of the Noble Lord tended more to criminate his Majesty's Ministers than to prove the insufficiency of their measures. If a system of hos tility was to be adopted against the Members of Go vernment, why not net openly, and move an Address to his Majesty to remove his present Ministers. He expressed a readiness to begin a negotiation with America, as soon as that country would offer terms • which it was consonant with the dignity of Great Britain to accept. It had been stated by the Noble Mover, that the intentioe of the duties imposed by the Orders in Council un foreign trade, was to increase the Public Weveoue of the State. But he declared, that their chief end was to distress the foe, to deprive and the nations that groaned beneath his des potism, of those .commodities which they had So long enjoyed ; 'and by these privations, Which must be intolerable, to Ipree them to cry aloud far peace, Tile Noble Lord pointed out, with exultation, the smallness of the sum resulting from those duties, and declared that they had not answered their ends. • But hia exultation was unfounded. It was impossible, that as soon as the Orders in Council were passed, the duties should ,be regularly levied. Time must have elapsed' before their execution could; be en forced ; and it was not thereforeastonishing that the sums which till now they had produced, had not equalled his Lordship's expeaations. As, to their ends being fulfilled, he would only refer his Lord ship to the Continental Newspapers, which teemed with complaints of the,darness and deficienc:' of colonial produas. As to the statements which he had given, of the' falling off of the exports of th 4 year 1808, ought to be laid to the account of the American Embargo. It ought nut. The Noble Lord forgot that in 1807 the ports of Russia, those of Swedish Pomerania, and even those of Austria were open to our trade. In 1808 they were all shut. Some were occupied and defended by French troops, others closed through the weak pusillanimity of their possessors. This a'as the real cause of the 'deficiency in our exports during the last year, and .not merely, if at all, the American. Embargo. The Noble Lord was much in the wrong if he fancied that our manufactures had suffered so much, be would find, on the contrary, that, in the year 1808, there was. an increase, in the exports odour manuladured goods, of five hundred thousand pounds. It had been stated that the Embargo was caused by our Orders in Council ; with what justice, however, be would spew, by a reference to their. respec , tive dates. He found that the Orders in Council had been issued the e6th December, 1808, and the American Embargo was dated the .s.iad of December, of the same year. So that, in the short space of three days, intelligence respelling our Or ders had been transmitted to the Government of the United States, they had had time to meet on the subject, and concert the best measures to punish us for issuing a Decree so injurious to their trade ? It was remarkable, that almost alt the articles mentioned by the Noble Mover as being checked, in their importation by the Embargo, were so only by the Non-Importation Aet,.which had been passed nearly a year after the Orders in Council, and be- fore the last propositions had been made.' He then pointed out several large traits of unculti;. weed ground in' Ireland, Where it would be . easy to grow ilex, as soon as the seed could be ob tained from Lower Canada, which, on account of the River St. Lawrence being frozen, could not probably be before June-next. He showed that the imparts of timber and several other articles' had increased considerably during the last year. Much had been.said of the advantages which this Country Would deriVe from the Embargo being raised withy respei to England, and'continued with respect to France. But this was a chimerical measure, the execution of which was impassible; for as soon as ships were allowed to leave a port, who could di rect their course "towards Great Britain alone, would not an immense' isumber profit by the op portunity, and supply the Continent with all the commodities of which it had so long stood in need ? The moment the 'French Decrees were re pealed, ours* would, be so too. But his Majesty purchase the removal" of of bnaortgot,o seem byan to u et of ,yielding, weakness beneath the dignity of this Country. His Lordship then made some remarks oh the propriety or Mr. Canning's letter, which the No- - hie Mover ~had read, declared that, the expliination which it gave of the intentions& the American Go vernment wai an inquisitive mid, in Order to ascer tain what they were,,a proof that 'they . had not been unfolded as plainly as they bad been represented to have been: . Her couclUded by refusing his assent to the Motion, as he had heard no reason which, in Lord' Mmvir.t.v: remarked, that the Noble Mover and his Frieud who hid last spoken had stated the question on two widely different groUndsa He un derstodd that the first wished his Majesty, after liavr. lag considered all theparticulars of the case, to open, if praCticable, a negotiation with America. But the latter wished to convey to the royal mind a distrutt Of the persons employed in the Administration: If the overthrow of Ministers were his objeti, why not take a more dire& and Manly way of attack. Why rest satisfied with condemning the aCts - of Govern. ment, and yet leave that bovernMent tta concha the opening negociations, in order to incur again the hostility of the Oppositiou. H'e considered the conduct of America as a 'branch a the neutral con spiracy instigated by Buonaparte againit !tie tom coerce of Great Britain. Those who insisted' so strongly upon neutral ri4hts, Shenk' consider whe ther the parties had discharged the duties of neutral. The LORD CHANCELLOR contended, that no Peer could vote for the Motion now before' the House,. wfio was friendly either to the late or the present Administration. The Order of the 7th of Jaanary, 1807, made when the Noble Baron (Greri= villa) was in office, completely sanCtioned the Order which followed. He• - must oppose . the Motion, as not tending, in his judgment, to prtiduce a dignified or effectual Lord ERSKINE regretted the severe line of cantina hitherto pursued towards AnieriCa, and regarded the present as a fit season for conciliation. Lord Gaimvii.t.e having ,made an able reply, the House divided, when the nurtibers stead thus i-- Ayes, 70—Noes, t 15--Majority against' the Mo 'ion, 45. The House adjourned at Three o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMOAS. WEDNESDXY, FEB. 15. Con the motion of Lord FOLKSTON e, it Was order ed, that Capt. Huxley Sanden should be brought up from Newgate, to attend the Committee on the conduct of the Duke of York, and that Mrs. M. A. Clarke should be summoned to attend the same: A new Writ was ordered for Stamford, in the room of General Bertie, who had accepted the . Citil tern Hundreds. A message from the Lords announced that their Lordships had passed Gregson:s Divorce Bill, to which they desired the concurrence of the House. Mr. Alderman CONIBE presented a Bill for the Improvement of Temple Bar, Etc. Read a first time, and ordeted to btz read a second tittle on Mon day. • . Mr. Foas•rsa gave notice, • that on Monday next he should move that the House do resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the Auk of the tJth Geo. which related to the Bank of Ireland. • The Irish Militia Bill went through a Committee, the report Of which was ordered to be received on Monday. Mr. O'HAHA obtained leave to bring .in a 'Bill for better regulating the Office of Constable in Ire land. The Bill was brought in, read a first time, ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday, and to be printed. Sir J. NEMPORT obtained leave to bring in , a Bill for tucreetfeetually preventing the. Embezzle ment of the Public Money by any Cashier, Clerk, or other Officer under G'overnment. SELECT COMMITTEE. Mr. LEAou brought up the Report Of the Seie Committee appointed last night.by the CUMMitIOd of the whole House, to examine the letters and papers that had been brought from Captain Sanden's lodg ing, and to report their opinion thereon. , The Re port stated, that the Committee thought the papers all relevant to the Inquicy . before the House. DUKE OrYORK. Lord FOLKSTONN having moved that the order of the'day be read for the Higuse to resoNe itself into a Committee, to continue the investigation of the condutt of his Royal Highness the Duke of York. .Mr. BisRESPORD rose to complain of what be apprehended was a gross breach of the privileges of the House. One of the newspapers, in the report which it contained of'some observations that he hat made last night,tad put into his mouth words which he had never uttered. never used harslilexples itonsio any Gentleman, 'Without previouS,provuea. Lion 3 and if he did use them, he would be the last man to retract them ; but as it would-be unmanly to deny what he actually had said, so it would be as unmanly not to come forward and deny that he had said what wa* untruly imputed to him. The Papet, to which he alluded was " The Morning Post ; " and the passage was as follows " Mr: BLKISPORD, addressing himself to Mr. Wititota, said, Ha could not refrain trust antrnadvetting on several parti of the Hon. Member's conduti in f4l(mm to him from thy commencement of this inquiry. He conatj,ncd it untunt is some and Ungentlemanly.—(Order, order He appealed to the House whether he had used any such teriud. They I.4ever had heen used by' hilo,